The high selection pressure applied in rice breeding since its domestication thousands of
years ago has caused a narrowing in its genetic variability. Obtaining new rice cultivars …

Rice is a staple grain crop in China and also the highest yielding one in grain crops. Using
Chinese agricultural statistical data and the literature, this paper analyzed the successful …

The rapid increase in herbicide-resistant weeds creates a huge challenge to global food
security because it can reduce crop production, causing considerable losses. Combined …

Developing herbicide-tolerant varieties by genome editing holds great promise for
addressing the worsening weed problems in wheat cultivation. Here, we generated …

Answer:• It is a constant race between the crop and the environment (biotic and abiotic).
Therefore, having a number of different varieties prolongs our on-farm advantage• Each farm …

Conventional transplanted rice (TPR) has been increasingly replaced by direct-seeded rice
(DSR) because of its low water and labour requirements. Whether and how DSR can be as …

Herbicide-tolerant rice varieties generated by genome editing are highly desirable for weed
control. We have used a cytosine base editor to create a series of missense mutations in the …

Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS)-induced mutagenesis is a powerful tool to generate genetic
resource for identifying untapped genes and characterizing the function of genes to …

Ongoing increases in the human population necessitate that rice will continue to be a critical
aspect of food security for the twenty-first century. While production must increase in the …

This review provides an overview on the most common rice weed species of the world. It
shows that a few generalists have established in rice independent from sites, crop …